Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:13:52 +0530 | From | Balbir Singh <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux Kernel Tester’s Guide v0.3-rc1 |
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Michal Piotrowski wrote: > Hi Balbir, > > On 21/06/07, Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: >> Wonderful! Are there any plans to start using the fault injection >> framework >> to catch more defects? > > There are plans for the second part called "debugging techniques", but > I really don't know when I'll start writing this. > > In fact I don't even know if it will be useful for testers. IMHO it is > for developers not for testers. > > Regards, > Michal >
I thought so too, but being able to randomly fail allocations on a system might expose the system error handling and recovery capabilities.
It'll also be interesting to see if testing is catching bugs, that tools (such as sparse) could have caught.
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